Meade Melissa E, Klein Michael D, Fernandes Myra A
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2020 Feb;73(2):199-210. doi: 10.1177/1747021819869188. Epub 2019 Aug 17.
Drawing, as an encoding strategy for to-be-remembered words, has previously been shown to provide robust memory benefits. In the current study, we investigated the effect of drawing on false memory endorsements during a recognition test. We found that while drawing led to higher hit rates relative to writing (Experiment 1) and creating visual mental imagery (Experiment 2), it also led to higher false alarm (FA) rates to critical lures in a variant of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. When compared with an encoding strategy requiring listing of object features (Experiment 3), drawing led to a lower FA rate. We suggest that drawing enhances memory by promoting recollection of rich visual contextual information during retrieval, and this leads to the unintended side effect of increasing FA rates to related information.
绘图作为一种用于记忆单词的编码策略，此前已被证明能带来强大的记忆益处。在当前的研究中，我们调查了绘图在识别测试中对错误记忆认可的影响。我们发现，虽然相对于书写（实验1）和创建视觉心理意象（实验2），绘图导致了更高的命中率，但在Deese-Roediger-McDermott（DRM）范式的一个变体中，它也导致了对关键诱饵的更高误报（FA）率。与要求列出物体特征的编码策略（实验3）相比，绘图导致了更低的误报率。我们认为，绘图通过在检索过程中促进对丰富视觉背景信息的回忆来增强记忆，而这会导致对相关信息的误报率增加这一意外的副作用。
